1 A great wind rises, and the summer is gone in a moment.
2 I got upon the desk immediately, apprehensive of at least a great dog underneath.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 3 He was a person of great power in my eyes; that was, of course, the reason of my mind running on him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE 4 Here I was suddenly melted, and roared out, 'No, you haven't, Mrs. Gummidge,' in great mental distress.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 5 To see Steerforth walk to church before us, arm-in-arm with Miss Creakle, was one of the great sights of my life.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 6 Ham had been patching up a great pair of waterboots; and I, with little Em'ly by my side, had been reading to them.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 7 I have a great many defects, I know, and it's very good of you, Edward, with your strength of mind, to endeavour to correct them for me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 8 Mr. Copperfield was very kind to me, and took a great deal of notice of me, and paid me a good deal of attention, and at last proposed to me.
9 Opposite me was an elderly lady in a great fur cloak, who looked in the dark more like a haystack than a lady, she was wrapped up to such a degree.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 10 Before this boy, who was reputed to be a great scholar, and was very good-looking, and at least half-a-dozen years my senior, I was carried as before a magistrate.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE 11 An accidental circumstance cemented the intimacy between Steerforth and me, in a manner that inspired me with great pride and satisfaction, though it sometimes led to inconvenience.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 12 As slumber gradually stole upon me, I heard the wind howling out at sea and coming on across the flat so fiercely, that I had a lazy apprehension of the great deep rising in the night.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 13 The air was so clear and pleasant, and the horse seemed to like the idea of the ride so much himself, as he stood snorting and pawing at the garden-gate, that I had a great desire to go.
14 We all acknowledged that we felt this something of a disappointment; but Mrs. Gummidge said she felt it more than we did, and shed tears again, and made that former declaration with great bitterness.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 15 It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.
16 It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 17 On the ground-floor is Peggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-house on a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferocious manner.
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